LASHKAR RECRUITING ROHINGYAS FOR TERROR OPS IN INDIA

Radicalisation, according to Indian intelligence officers, is taking place in the settlements where the Rohingya refugees are staying.

Who ensured the settlement of so many thousands of Rohingyas in Jammu and why? The distance between Rakhine province in Myanmar and Jammu and Kashmir, even if Rohingya migrants walked in a straight line, is more than 2,500 km. The distance between Jammu and Lahore in Pakistan is less than 100 km as the crow flies. It was in Lahore that the leaders and the cadre of the Milli Muslim League, the newly formed political front of Hafiz Saeed’s terrorist group Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, recently held a rally stating that it had started sending its own cadre to Myanmar to “help” the Rohingyas—an in- tent the agencies in India interpret as radicalising them and providing them with arms. The agencies say they have proof of the Rohingyas’ direct connection with the Lashkar and like-minded groups in Pakistan. The agencies are worried at the possibility of these terrorist outfits using the Myanmar based Muslim ethnic minority group against India. So they are opposed to the continuing Rohingya influx into India. At least three intelligence agency officers told this newspaper that the influx has been going on since 2008 and prior to this, no attempts were made to stop the Rohingyas from coming in.

“This has been going on for at least eight-ten years. Earlier, they used to come in small numbers, bribe the local policemen and officials and settle down. That there were not any checks on them is obvious from the fact that they managed to go to virtually every corner of India. We know that a well oiled and organised network of ‘handlers’ based in Myanmar, Bangladesh and India’s West Bengal is behind this. We also know that such a